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The team designed, built, and successfully demonstrated a means and apparatus to remove the sediment in a plasma cutter water tank, thus reducing the necessary (and costly) manufacturing shutdown that would otherwise be needed for manual cleaning of the tank.
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Raymond Laoulache
Team:
Alex Glenn (Leader), Mechanical Engineering
Josh Stoddard, Mechanical Engineering
Huan Yu, Mechanical Engineering
Josh Stoddard, Mechanical Engineering
Sponsor:
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding
Abstract:
The team designed, built, and successfully demonstrated a means and apparatus to remove the sediment in a plasma cutter water tank, thus reducing the necessary (and costly) manufacturing shutdown that would otherwise be needed for manual cleaning of the tank.
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Department of Mechanical Engineering